A Quotes
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“Abstinence is easier than temperance.”
“Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.”
“Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.”
“Abstinence is the surety of temperance.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.”
“Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.”
“Abstinence works, I know it from my own personal life, abstinence works.”
“Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.”
“Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.”
“Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable.”
“Abstinența sexuală și punerea responsabilității pe umerii femeilor nu este soluția. Soluția este să discutăm și să educăm tinerii. Educația sexuală să cuprindă și aspectele emoționale și etice ale relaționării între un bărbat și o femeie. Femeile să recunoască semnele unui manipulator și să pună limite sănătoase. [...] Adolescenții să fie educați în spiritul corectitudinii și respectului față de cuplu, iar atitudinile manipulatoare și degradante să fie puse la zid și nu aplaudate.”
Source: Sexualitatea astăzi, între sacru și banal. Ghid de supraviețuire în jungla urbană
“Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality.”
“Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.”
“Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.”
Source: The Hidden Order of Art: A Study in the Psychology of Artistic Imagination
“Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.”
“Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.”
“abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.”
“Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.”
“Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.”
Source: The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell
“Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.”
Source: Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944: A Revolution in Painting
“Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.”
“Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.”
Source: The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
“Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.”
“Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions.”
Source: The Masquerade
“Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract at all but very human.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Abstract expression is so solid, so successful and recognizable, but there's a mystery about the artists that goes into it, a fetishism about the artists themselves and who they were.”
“Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).”
“Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.”
“Abstract expressionism was the first American art that was filled with anger as well as beauty.”
“Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.”
“Abstract is a journey through both my mind and my past.”
“Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.”
“Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.”
“Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.”
“Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.”
“Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his visual impressions. A realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.”
“Abstract painters: redefine your perspectives. Think in terms of the whole, not simply its parts.”
“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.”
“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.”
“Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.”
“Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.”
“Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.”
“Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.”
“Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!”
Source: Rhyme? And Reason? (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)
“Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence.
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality.”
“Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in traditional settings from the moral frameworks within which everyday life was undertaken. Moreover, the wholesale penetration of abstract systems into daily life creates risks which the individual is not well placed to confront; high-consequence risks fall into this category. Greater interdependence, up to and including globally independent systems, means greater vulnerability when untoward events occur that affect those systems as a whole.”
Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
“Abstract thinking leads to greater creativity... But in our businesses and our lives, we often do the opposite. We intensify our focus rather than widen our view.”
“Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.”
Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects
“Abstract truth is the eye of reason.”
“Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery rather that obvious description. Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding. Abstraction within realism adds zest and excitement to otherwise dull subject matter. Abstract understanding takes time and patience.”